Unlocking Capital: A Handbook for Becoming a High Performing Development Finance Agency

The development finance industry is one of the most robust and important players within the economic, infrastructure, small business and community development sectors. Without development finance, the work of cities, counties, townships, school districts and states to advance these causes could not move forward. CDFA’s Practitioner’s Guide to Economic Development Finance provides an in-depth overview of the tools used in facilitating development finance and is a great resource for those looking to implement specific financing approaches.

Unlocking Capital: A Handbook for Becoming a High Performing Development Finance Agency (Handbook) serves as a companion to the Practitioner’s Guide to help illuminate the structures of development finance agencies (DFAs), essential conduits to access development finance tools. The Handbook provides an overview of DFAs and their myriad roles in various development efforts. Included in this discussion is a
comprehensive look at over a dozen high-performing DFAs throughout the country. The Handbook is designed to be a starting point for local leaders to engage in the creation or acceleration of a DFA to build and utilize the development finance toolbox.

What is a Development Finance Agency?

Covering: What are Development Finance Agencies? What can DFAs do? How are DFAs formed?

• DFA Programming
• DFA Size and Impact
• DFA Structures
• DFA Fees and Program Revenue
• DFAs and CDFIs

Tools Utilized by Development Finance Agencies

Covering: The myriad tools that DFAs can utilize to complete the financing toolbox

High Performing Development Finance Agencies

Covering: What makes a DFA high performing and case studies of 15 high performing DFAs from across the nation.

• Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority
• Berwyn Development Corporation
• Chester County Economic Development Council
• City of Minneapolis Community Planning and Economic Development Department
• Colorado Region 9 Economic Development District of Southwest Colorado
• Development Authority of Fulton County
• Development Finance Authority of Summit County
• Louisville Forward
• Memphis Economic Development Growth Engine
• Philadelphia Industrial Development Corporation
• Phoenix IDA
• Redevelopment Authority of the City of Milwaukee
• St. Louis Economic Development Partnership
• Toledo-Lucas County Port Authority
• Wisconsin Housing and Economic Development Authority

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